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...think too much of things at home," cried Acting President Djuanda in farewell. Said Bung Karno: "I leave with confidence. I trust the people...
...sixth straight gals-and-ghouls movie (and 59th film) turned out by Britain's brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other items from Hollywood's library of horror classics have earned more dollars from...
...serves, pitches and passes, it was rarely more exciting than watching grass grow. Between yawns, the New York Herald Tribune's, Columnist Red Smith got off a series of wryscracks that hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
Right from the start, the Pabst junket was as hopped-up as enterprising public relations men could make it. In Milwaukee, before boarding the plane, newsmen walked on a red carpet into the Pabst plant to watch Wisconsin's Governor Vernon Thomson bung the golden 100 millionth barrel of beer. "We had to delay production two months to make sure the golden barrel did not get away from us," cracked a Pabst man. At lunch the party blinked at the deadpan declaration of Pabst President Harris Perlstein: "This golden barrel is the golden symbol of peace...
...peak of stage management was achieved by Red China. Hundreds of thousands lined the roads as Sukarno passed; schoolchildren paraded, youth groups cried "Hidup Bung Karno!" Flow ers and confetti and drums and songs greeted his every appearance. Chou En-lai personally showed him factories and bridges. After Russia, Sukarno had observed dubiously: "One can see the price of their achievement in the faces of their people." But here were Communists who smiled...